The Best Way To Grow Your Company? Acquisition!

Once upon a time, I thought acquisition was a strategy reserved for big companies.  I thought you needed teams of lawyers to work through phone book size agreements and complicated EBITDA formulas.  I imagined strong armed tactics and hostile takeovers. Boy, was I wrong.   Acquisition is the best way to grow your company.   You can’t [...]

The Best Way To Grow Your Company? Acquisition!2017-02-17T23:45:25+00:00

5 Tips For B2B Referral Marketing Success

It’s one thing to tell your customers how great you are.  It’s a much bigger, better thing to have respected community influencers tell your customers how great you are.  It’s the thing that can ramp up your marketing to create immediate, measurable results.  Here’s how… Make a list of 10 VIPs…Very Influential People…in your community. [...]

5 Tips For B2B Referral Marketing Success2016-12-01T14:55:14+00:00

3 New Years Resolutions You Should NEVER Make

Oh, the lists are lining up!  Tis the season for the “Best Of” and the “Worst Of” and the requisite “Resolutions for the New Year.”  The pressure is on to make this year better, bigger, more profitable than 2012.  Perhaps the way to more…is with less.  Less pressure.  Less stress.  Less disappointment and self-flagellation.  Let’s [...]

3 New Years Resolutions You Should NEVER Make2016-12-01T14:55:17+00:00

The Upside of Fear

Weldon Long Weldon Long spent 14 years in prison.  7 years into his sentence, he had a humbling, leveling moment where he realized that everything that he was afraid of he had brought into his life.  He was afraid of becoming an addict, of getting arrested, of losing his family…and [...]

The Upside of Fear2016-12-01T14:55:17+00:00

Lessons From the Shark Tank

Are you obsessed with The Shark Tank? I am! I tune in Friday nights, or catch up on the recorded shows when I miss the new episode. I love Shark Daymond’s suits. I love Barbara Corcoran and her tough-mutha-ly advice. And, don’t you wish you were Mark Cuban? I do! The Sharks give some pretty [...]

Lessons From the Shark Tank2016-12-01T14:55:18+00:00

How to Avoid Employee Theft!

Former worker admits stealing nearly $170,000 from University Plaza Hotel edited news release from U.S. attorney’s office 2:10 p.m. CST, February 22, 2012 SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A former employee of University Plaza Hotel and Convention Center in Springfield pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday for stealing nearly $170,000 from the hotel. “JM”, 47, of [...]

How to Avoid Employee Theft!2016-12-01T14:55:19+00:00

Empty Thy Purse Into Thy Head

You know I’m a big reader.  I love books of all shapes, lengths and genres.  However, I am too old to tolerate a bad book.  I’ve no time for it.  So, let me save you some time.  Here are a few sure-fire business book recommendations guaranteed to make you wiser, richer and better looking.   Well, [...]

Empty Thy Purse Into Thy Head2016-12-01T14:55:19+00:00

“He said I ripped him off!”

Recently I got this email from someone who had been accused of ripping off his customer… Dear Ellen, One of my customers called this morning and said I ripped him off. This was after my tech quoted a price, he accepted it, we did the work, and he signed for the work. This morning he [...]

“He said I ripped him off!”2016-12-01T14:55:21+00:00